Lock up meaning
Lock up is a phrasal verb that means to confine someone in prison or in a hospital for people with mental illness.
- Past simple
- locked up
- Past participle
- locked up
- -ing form
- locking up
What lock up means
confine in prison or hospitalB2
To confine someone in prison or in a hospital for people with mental illness
The judge ordered that the offender be locked up.
Similar phrasal verbs
With lock: lock out.
With up: wake up, pick up, grow up, line up, make up, set up, put up, go up, bring up, mess up.
Common questions
What does lock up mean?
To confine someone in prison or in a hospital for people with mental illness.
What is the past tense of lock up?
Locked up, which is also its past participle.
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